Articles & Tutorials

In this article, Vinit Agrawal shares a recommended approach that Android devs should follow to avoid the problem of making extensive changes to an app for color or other theme updates.

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Vinícius Sossella explains why MVVM in and of itself isn't enough for your implementation. Here are some other things to take into consideration.

Guy Griv interviews Android developer Wolfram Rittmeyer.

M. Reza Nasirloo explains what backpressure is in RxJava, why it's important, and various approaches to handling it.

Arturo Gutiérrez shows you how to use Architecture Components to detect background and foreground Activity events.

Ron Amodeo's Q&A with Android engineers Dave Burke and Iliyan Malchev, where they talk about Android P progress at length.

Hari Vignesh Jayapalan continues his series with a simple Hello AR using SceneForm.

Sanae Rosen discusses experiences and lessons learned modularizing the Yelp application and how they can help inform similar decisions for other Android applications.

“Kotlin is great and I really want to use it. But how can I convince my management?” Philipp Hauer shares some tips on how to do this.

In this post Mark Allison will teach you why you want dependency injection on your application. He also walks you through the code to do dependency injection using the Dagger 2 library.

This is an introductionary blog post for RxPermission. RxPermission is library to get Android Permission in a reactive way and its a fork (from a RxJava) that has been rewritten to support RxJava 2. Be sure to check out the code as well.

The Android Context object is one of the most used and abused objects. In this post you'll learn how to use it properly. You'll learn about the scenarios when to put data in it and when you leverage other parts of Android to achieve a certain behaviour.

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Libraries & Code

Reactive permissions for Android.

Simple customized progress bar in the form of an arch.

News

An update & apology from the Android Studio team for recent memory leak issues related to the Layout Editor in Android Studio 3.1.x and 3.2 Canary versions.

Google released Android P Beta 2, an update that includes the final Android P APIs, the latest system images, and updated developer tools to help you get ready for the consumer release coming later in the summer.

Google announce the Capillary open source library which greatly simplifies the implementation of E2E-encryption for push messages between developer servers and users' Android devices.

As a leader in AI, employees at Google feel a deep responsibility to get it right. So Sundar Pichai is announcing seven principles to guide AI work going forward.

Videos & Podcasts

With the EmojiCompat library, part of Jetpack, your app can get backwards-compatible emoji support on devices with API level 19 and higher

In this episode, the Fragmented team dives into the specifics of Apollo and how Mike went about creating a GraphQL client for Android.

Nate Ebel knows that Kotlin's popularity continues to grow, and there's never been a better time to start using & learning the language. He shares a couple tips on how to get started.

A series of Google Design videos on Material Design & tools.